Hi Bryan,
As far as I know, CST4 doesn't support the easy word click dictionary
lookup. Lennart's Pali Text Reader http://palireader.sourceforge.net/
uses tool tips (automatic dictionary lookup display and definition of
word the mouse pointer hovers over is in a bubble text). On a thread a
while back, maybe a year ago, I believe Lennart had expressed interest
in adding that dictionary click feature to CST4, but because of rights
issues with the organization that wrote CST4 that wasn't possible.
The quickest way I can look up dictionary words with cst4 is keep a
dictionary window open, on the sutta window double click on a word to
highlight it (much faster than manually holding down left mouse button
and grabbing the amount to mark), cntr-c to copy that marked word to
clipboard, then ctrl-v to paste marked word to dictionary window.
I envy those of you who only occasionally have to look up a single
word, in which case the above is not too tedious. For those like myself
less developed in our pali vocabulary, I found Lennart's tool "pali
translator" to be marvelous
http://www.nibbanam.com/pali_language_tools.html#ptrans . Basically you
paste in a whole block (up to several paragraphs) of pali text
(unicode), and it does a batch dictionary lookup of all the words in
that block.

-Frank

On 1/2/2011 1:35 PM, Bryan Levman wrote:
>
> Hi Frank and Larry,
>
> Thanks for the info on installing the CST4 and keyboard. I have
> Windows 7 and
> had no trouble in installing the CST program. I'm wondering if the
> dictionary
> can be made to work the way Digital Pali Reader works by pointing to and
> clicking on a word. Does anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best, Bryan
>
> ________________________________
> From: frank <fcckuan@... <mailto:fcckuan%40gmail.com>>
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Pali%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 1:20:45 PM
> Subject: [Pali] pali keyboard input mapping, cst4 on windows 7 pc
>
> Thanks Larry for the tips on getting cst4 installed on Windows 7 pc's. I
> was also inspired to finally install the pali-keyboard input software
> from the same cst4 area: http://www.tipitaka.org/keyboard/
>
> If I knew it was that easy to set up and start typing pali special
> characters, I would have installed that a long time ago.
>
> The page I listed shows the keyboard mappings, I made my own shorthand
> notes here: What I noticed is that 9 out of the 14 special characters
> map intuitively, e.g. the keyboard [a] produces " ā" with the macron, so
> we really only have to memorize or write on a little post-it note to put
> next to our keyboard the 5 miscreant special cases.
>
> [ctrl]+[alt]+[ ] : [y] → ñ [a] → ā [I] → ī [h] → ś [u] → ū [d] → ḍ [v] →
> ḥ [l] → ḷ [m] → ṃ
>
> [g] → ṅ [n] → ṇ [r] → ṛ [s] → ṣ [t] → ṭ
>
> [ctrl]+[alt]+[shift]+[ ] : produces uppercase version of pali letter
>
> 14 special pali letters. 9 of 14 map intuitively
>
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